Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] have [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversation between them had been a problem in the hospital where they first met , right up to the night when she pushed his cot into an empty room , locked the door , took off her uniform and climbed in beside him . |
| 2 | Mrs. Mirjam Foot of the British Library ( and currently Editor of the British Library Journal ) who kindly looked into the problem for me , pointed out that while there were some stationers whose initials and dates fitted , such as Richard Baldwyn , who worked in London till 1590 , there is no evidence of any one of them having been a bookbinder . |
| 3 | I would apologise unreservedly if I thought any of them have been a mistake but I do n't believe they have been . |
| 4 | I would apologise unreservedly if I thought any of them have been a mistake but I do n't believe they have been . |
| 5 | It was obvious that the sight of him had been a shock to Tamar 's brother , but Davis was convinced that he had never encountered George before . |
| 6 | Every word of it had been a lie and to this truth Trent remained as totally committed now , close to his own death , as he had been when plotting the downfall of the groups he had penetrated . |
| 7 | It was my first and only time with Isabelle , and the memory of it has been a shadow across the whole of my life . ’ |
| 8 | A common theme in the reaction against it has been a demand for the ‘ return to justice ’ : retributive justice is seen as having the virtue of acknowledging that it is punishing ‘ responsible ’ people , which in turn requires the safeguards of individual rights and public accountability of the ‘ due process of law ’ , and the limitations on intervention in people 's lives provided by the principle of retributive proportionality . |
| 9 | Grainne had nodded , and she had done as she was told , but deep within her had been a spurt of anger , for when had Dierdriu ever borne loss , when had Dierdriu ever lost a lover ? |
| 10 | Patrick had been company , tending him had been a solace , hoping for him had been a hope . |
| 11 | My going-away present to them had been a pair of inflatable yellow wheel clamps which I 'd attached front and aft to their VW Golf . |
| 12 | These conflicts have , of course , had diverse and individual causes , but common to them has been a change in the political environment in which public enterprises operate . |
| 13 | Alas , they were not safe , and what happened to them has been a matter of considerable argument . |
| 14 | ‘ There are these constant references to me having been a Playboy Bunny , and a pin-up photo taken when I was 18 , that ended up as Miss March on a beer calendar . |
| 15 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |
| 16 | Key among them has been a failure in the UK to build appropriate or adequate bridges between business , the universities , and other sources of innovation like the national laboratories . |